upgrade_mailer.py is a script that sends email or Jabber notifications when updates on your APT or YUM based system are available. This includes Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, and Red Hat. It can use TLS if your SMTP supports that.

GCalert will access all your Google calendars and display alarms via libnotify for whenever you have alarms set for each event. These alarm widgets do not receive focus (and thus do not take keyboard input away from other applications), yet are clearly visible even on a cluttered desktop.

URL Notification System (UNS) uses simple Web pages to show messages and alerts around your campus. Every zone can have its own custom messages, and an emergency mode can be set that overrides all pages in all zones. Active Directory is supported for user access. RSS feeds are supported. Lists of URLs can be copied from one client to anther or from another client zone.

Zfswatcher is ZFS storage pool monitoring and notification daemon. It periodically inspects the zpool status and sends configurable notifications on status changes such as disk failures. It also controls the disk enclosure LEDs. There is an embedded Web interface for displaying status and logs.